I was lucky enough to get hold of an invite for Google+ earlier today thanks to one of the guys at work and some creative invitation methods. I’ll cover my impressions of the new social media platform in another post but I wanted to cover an initial stumbling block separately first. Naturally, after playing about with all the features and inviting half the office, we all decided to take a look at the mobile version of Google+.

There’s a fair mix of handsets in the office, covering iPhone, Android, Blackberry and my own, Windows Phone 7. Google have already launched a native Android application for +, as expected, while other platforms have to settle for accessing the platform via the mobile web app, available at google.com/+. While others were able to access the web application without any problems, I ran in to a bit of an issue with WP7.

Last night Google launched their own contender for Facebook’s crown. Google+ is the search giant’s newest concept to tackle “Zuck” and Co. at their own game and even take it further. The move surprised a large number of people in the search and social media industries, despite a number of glaring (at least in hindsight) indications. There was a suprising lack of information around the launch, not even the usual industry gossip around such an announcement. Naturally, the web has since exploded with the news.

Vizualize.Me are gearing up to launch their infographic resume (CV to you and me) over the coming months. The private beta is due to kick off in July, with a public beta soon to follow at the beginning of August. This innovative service takes your LinkedIn profile data and turns it into a collage of charts, visualisations and colours encompassing your employment history, qualifications and skills, all in a single click.

There are people out there who struggle to remember the correct order in which to specify T-SQL commands in Microsoft SQL Server. While I’m not actually one of them, I did like this nice little mnemonic from guest columnist Andy Owl over at SQL Server mega-resource, SQL Server Central.

Self-confessed social “anti-network” site OneTrueFan has recently launched a new API, currently in beta, which provides a staggering level of access to their “Fanalytics” data.

OneTrueFan works via a combination of Facebook/Twitter integration and a custom browser add-on, which tracks your browsing behaviour. By tracking which pages you visit, what content you share and what you post about, OneTrueFan can compare and rank all their users and offer valuable insight into users’ online behaviour.